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Welcome to I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve

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Rivera, He's Jacin Zauce. Got
our guy E on today. We'll get

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first fifteen minutes here. Welcome to
Thursday. Feels like Friday if I fall

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asleep, Jay, I got in
Really, I was gonna ask you,

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how was the drive home? It
sucked? What times you get out of

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there? One thirty? You left
it? Yeah? I go home at

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three thirty? No? Yeah,
wow, Yeah it sucked. The last

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guys in the building me Channel four
guy, the new Channel four guy,

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and one of the Goagy Cats guys, H Dave. Yeah it sucked.

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And nobody in downtown Phoenix. Why
what did you think about staying there?

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Oh? No, no, no, no, I had to get back

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any get back man. Yeah,
it was it was tough. I'm I

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woke up with ten and whatever it
was. It was tiring. How was

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that? How did it set you
know, look good. How was the

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atmosphere? I mean again about certainly
not the neutral quarter was supposed to be

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sure? Sure, yeah, no, ninety percent if not more Arizona fans

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obviously a lot of them, a
lot of ninety percent it was, yeah,

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because Alabama had few, But I
mean, how full was it?

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About ninety A lot of people,
a lot of fans who don't get to

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see the Did you listen to his
press conference? So so I'm sure I

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didn't stay up for that. I'm
sure you know I had to. But

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one of the things that he mentioned, Tommy Lloyd mentioned is he wants to

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make this an annual event. Did
you hear that? So he wants to

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make a play in Phoenix in front
of the fans up there. So he

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has some ideas of making that happen, which is a brilliant idea because they

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have so many fans that don't get
to see them the regular and then they'll

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get a good game out of it, right. And it was a cool

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thing because you know, all four
you know, both ACU and Arizona teams,

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all four of them got to play. You know, they were all

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on TV, which was bad news
fair ASU basketball because they were awful.

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Yeah, well U of A didn't
play. Yeah, well either, but

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they wont Oh you mean the women
women, Yeah, by time A su

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men. Oh yeah, terrible,
horrible, but yeah, your Arizona women

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lost. But you know, uh
yeah, I mean that would be that

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that that seemed like a cool event. I could see, you know,

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you know, people would love to
take in, you know, one of

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the two double headers. And my
I mean my daughters went to you know,

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to the Arizona game. They stayed, spent the night there. I'm

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like, you know, my daughter
Rachel, who's just you know, such

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a rabid fan as she dragged her
sister with her and they went, you

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know, and and a lot of
people ask me, are you going?

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Are you going? And it didn't. It never really dawned on me to

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go. I just, you know, so much going on here. But

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at nine o'clock game, you know, I guess you could have gone,

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you know, leave leave here,
you six o'clock and get there, and

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you have I wouldn't drive, M'd
spend the night. It was well you

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get an out of eleven thirty,
yeah, because all traffic, right,

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all the people are eleven thirty one
thirty. Yeah, from your east Side.

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Yeah, I don't like that.
You've seen them enough. Yeah,

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you see, and tonight last night
they looked pretty good in spurts. It

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was it was it was a stilted, stuttering awfulness in the first half.

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Yeah, well, you know the
way they came out, and I'm I'm

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not sure what that is because they've
done that against bad teams where it didn't

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look as bad as that first few
minutes when they were down nine to nothing.

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It'd given up four or five offensive
rebounds in like the first three or

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four possessions, you know. I
mean it was four almost five minutes gone

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before they got their first field goal, and I'm like, are they really

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going to do this? And then
they didn't? You know, right,

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well, that's the one thing I
never thought they'd lose one, and I

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never thought they wouldn't cover uh,
because they have that, they have that

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bite in them in the second half. Yeah, and it took their defense

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to start it right, you know, Pelly doing for the ball, found

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the found the man, blah blah
blah. Then kJ Lewis stole day.

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Uh, and they made that fourteen
to zero run and kind of put it

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away. I still think they have
they have issues. I don't know what

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those issues are, but let me
tell you I know one. You need

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to finish closer to the basket Ballo
needs to finish closer because those two feet

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when he gets the free line.
Although Tommy said his free throws are tight

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down tight, isn't good. You
don't want to trust it, right,

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you don't want to trust it.
And crevas is the crevas does not.

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I remember we saw him early and
he said, this guy's gonna get it.

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It gives you Duke. Yeah,
he hasn't. He hasn't. He

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hasn't improved. He hasn't improved at
a small baby step way, you know,

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yeah you know, I mean,
you know, just a couple of

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lamps that he missed where he looked
intimidated, maybe, yeah, you know,

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by by the athletic guys around him, maybe because he hasn't faced this

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kind of athlete, you know,
you know, the guys that can jump

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out of the building, right,
you know, and and uh, you

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know, I'm like dunk the dang
ball. Didn We shused to say that

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about du Son all the time,
Dunk the damn balld Son and Stokes go

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up strong and dunk it and make
him follow you, well, how was

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it to be seven foot? Tell
was it to be? I don't know,

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me too, So we don't we
don't know, right, we don't

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see it. I don't know how
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know. And then yeah, and
then there was another another long stretch with

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Kylon Boswell on the bench. Yeah, because I didn't think he was playing

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particularly bad. But you know,
nobody was pretty playing particularly great in the

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first half and early in the second
half. And then he came and then

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he comes in and he went nuts. You know, Caleb Love all of

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a sudden, you know, he
flipped a switch, you know, Caleb

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Love, and you know, he
had nothing, and all of a sudden

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he ends up with what, uh, sixteen or thirteen points? And then

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you know, boy, Evan,
my column man told us that Pela Larson

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is the most important guy for the
most influential guy on on the team.

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And last night you I because,
as you said, because of the conversation

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we had about Pellett Well on I
called in. I called in, yes

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to say that he really does have
that kind of influence he's in the game.

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Yeah, and things happened. So
so now I think between you and

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I or with you, and I'll
we'll probably keep an eye on that because

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now we before we didn't really notice. Yeah, now we noticed. And

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last night he was a spark.
He shut the ball well. But the

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thing with him is he's not as
flamboyant or he doesn't. He just gets

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a jump, just business like.
You look at his line. You know,

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six of twelve field goals he hit
a three point in, one of

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three, three or four free throw, six rebounds, two of those were

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offensive, sixteen points to assists,
three steals, two blocks in the turnover,

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A little bit of everything, a
little bit of everything, and that's

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what he does. Let's take this
call. Hi, you're on the air

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and one on the ball. Is
it going today? It was a fun

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experience last night. You went right? Yeah, I went okay, So

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tell me. Jay was asking me
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it was about ninety percent Arizona fans. Yeah, I thought so too.

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And you know, it was one
of those things where the fans really wanted

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to get into the game, I
thought more than the players did. I

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agree, But you know what,
and they kind of sparked some of that.

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Yeah, the announcement they did,
the announcers the The announcers actually said

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that. They said, Arizona fans
looking for a reason, you know,

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to get into the game. They
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Yeah, yeah, I mean it
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I mean it was, like you
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full at that place. It seemed
like it was, you know, and

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except the top, the very top
sections on each end were empty, but

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otherwise it was it was full.
And considering it was a nine o'clock game,

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I thought the Arizona fans turnout was
unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, no

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question. Yeah, it was a
fun It was a fun drive home.

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I got home. I got home
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you know, to me, I
thought they like you guys brought up,

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they got to finish around the basket. I don't understand why Ballo, who's

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this supposed massive guy, cannot just
take the ball and keep the ball off

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the ground and just take it right
back up and slam it home instead of

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trying for a soft little lay up
or whatever. You know. Yeah,

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thing, yes they did. They
both for some reason, they put the

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ball right on the ground and the
small guards whatever just take the ball away

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from every time. Yeah, but
you know that they played well. I

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think I think the toughness of the
schedule might be wearing them down a little

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bit. It's hard maybe mentally.
And they still got one tough game coming

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up Saturday night. Yeah, have
Saturday afternoon. I would think they're looking

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forward to the break. I think
so too. I think they're looking forward

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to the break of the pack twelve
conference. I don't say that too loudly

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because they need to do well in
that because you got to keep their status.

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Right. Oh, I know,
I know it, And it's going

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to be hard because we don't have
any I guess point generated games coming up

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unless U C. L A and
USC and Oregon can figure out to turn

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their turn their season around. Otherwise, you know, we can win a

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lot of games and dropping the polls
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Yeah, exactly, exactly, all
right, Brian, Hey, thanks

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a much, man. Okay,
okay there, yeah, now I again,

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it was as you said, you
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was worried that they were going to
lose the game. I you know,

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when a game like that, I'm
like, okay, I want them to

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cover because I don't want anybody,
you know, saying, well, now

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you're not this, you're not that. You know, in Alabama's a pretty

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good team. So they they did
some things that made Arizona struggle a little

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bit. But I did think that
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they're just they wear people down.
They just do Yeah, yeah, I

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look was good. I was looking
at the minutes you know, uh kJ

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Lewis and uh and Jade and Bradley. You know, kJ Lewis played twenty

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two, Jayden Bradley played sixteen.
You know that's a that's an amount of

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minutes where you know they're really good, right, There's not a big drop

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off when you have those guys,
and and they can wear a team down.

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So I think one of the other
things besides you're the basket shots that

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they didn't hit. One thought that
I had that was not a good thought.

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And I got a couple of texts, in fact, because I turned

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to Sheer and I said, here's
a problem. For six, five or

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six possessions, at least five.
They took one shot right, one shot.

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It was it was either Love or
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Love or Boswell. I'm thinking they
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into the office. Right. Well, yeah, you know, uh after

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one of the press conferences a week
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uh with with Tommy, I you
know, I just asked him,

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I said, you know, how
many assists you know what's important to you?

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And he said, if we get
twenty assists, I'm happy. You

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know who you got last night?
Twelve twelve assists and twenty eight bas right.

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And there was one in particular that
you know they're trying to you know,

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there's still there. I think they
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get they got, you know,
and Colin Boswell dribbles, you know,

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dribbles into the into the front court
and stops and launches about, you know,

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a twenty five foot three pointer.
I'm like, what was that?

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You could you saw Tommy in the
background. He put his hands out like

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what the hell was this? Not
doing that same sequence? So I was

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talking about I think, so there
was six and you're thinking that's not a

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good shot. It was not.
That was not something. And Tommy was

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he you could see him it.
The shot goes up and he misses.

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You see the rebound and I my
eye went straight to thommas he did what

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did he think? And he put
his hands up like, what the hell?

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What are you doing here? Yeah, here's I'm gonna give you lee,

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but not that much anyway. Yeah, Tommy was it was it was

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at it last night. Yeah,
he got it animated. Was that his

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first taste been here? Yeah it
was. Yeah, he was before he

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got the tea, was like,
I turned the shoes. So I've never

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I tweeted, I've never seen him
this animated. I put down to finish

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my tweet and he was getting teed
because he looked at rafts Stadler. I

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guess he had looked at wrestler like
what the hell and the ref saw him

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do that, and he got the
tee up. He was on his assistance

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to one of the uh not the
Murphy guy, but the other guy.

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I guess they have this relationship where
you just say, shut the hell up,

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you shut the held up, you
know, back and forth, which

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was funny to me because you know, I don't you don't see that.

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Yeah, no, And and honestly
it was weird too because from where I

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was sitting on my couch, it
was what because there's a tea that did

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you dunk on from your couch,
did mister seven footer, did you get

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the dunk from your cout? From
where I sat, it looked like one

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of those technicals that got the team
fired up. I can't remember that.

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I can't remember that. It just
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guys that were on the court suddenly
like they played pissed off for the next

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few minutes. And I thought,
because some teas, you know, it

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really hurts the team, and some
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they got fired up to see Tommy
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and uh, it was. It
was. It was strange. It was

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a strange still did stuttering sputtering first
half. Still in the second there was

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forty five files called forty five fifty
some free throws taken. It was a

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long drawn out yeah, but you
know they survived. The thing about a

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gene, I was thinking this in
the second half, if they run up

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against a team that's better than Bama
and shoots it, well, this could

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be trouble. Steve. You can
say that about you know, any good

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team, a good shore. Look. Pretty much all the good teams are

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capable of beating you. The question
is do they beat you that night with

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what they do? As you know, as we're talking off air, we

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got to go here in a second. If Alabama shoots its average from three,

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Arizona loses the game, but they
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from three, Arizona wins that game, but they didn't. So you just

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you know, when you're playing a
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It's just do they do the things
that they need to do to beat

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you. And last night, Arizona, whether it was Arizona's defense or they

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just couldn't shoot from three, whatever
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of that. Right, Okay,
let's it for this rind J. Perry.

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She's the CEO of the Phoenix a
Final Four host committee. She's been

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on the show before, just talking
about things going on with the final with

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the Final Four for there Today's World
Basketball Day. You said, yeah that,

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Steve Rivera and Jagen Salmas. This
is Ia Lapa on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty.

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Hey, welcome back to I on
the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteenth

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fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's
Jacobs Sauls and I would only have j

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Perry, the CEO the Final Four
Hosts Committee. How are you, Jake?

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I am fantastic. How How are
you all doing today? Doing well?

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I heard you were at the basketball
game last night with you they How

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did you like it or what did
you see? It was an exciting game,

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right It started off a little bit
slow for a Wildcat and you know,

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coming back from half time when it
was basically tied up, it was

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a great game. There was great
energy. I love how the Arizona fans

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travel even just to come up to
Phoenix. It was from the women's game

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leading into the men's game. It
was a lot of fun well being that

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you're you're you're involving with the Final
Fours as the host. Certainly, you

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know one of those times that I
know Arizona fans sitting down here, going

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we would love to see Arizona in
a final four. They disappointed the hell

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out of the fans back in eighteen
twenty. Was the twenty eighteen the last

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one? I think it was a
lot of expectation that year that Arizona would

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get to that final four and they
didn't. But you know, when you

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think about that, is it for
a final four that doesn't really matter.

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I mean, it's going to be
seventy two thousand of madness. No matter

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who's there, it is going to
be madness. And you know you all

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have been. I mean, it's
just great energy, right. I mean,

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it's one of the best sporting events
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especially with two games on Saturday and
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I mean, it's going to be
Mayhem no matter what. But if we

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had one of our local Arizona teams
in it, that would take it over

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the top, I think because all
the lead up, right, all the

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excitement of March Madness would just you
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I mean it'd be on fire.
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It'll be banker. I hadn't thought
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there's a yeah, there you'd be. There'd be some bad ones in there.

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I'm pretty I'm pretty sure. Yes, yes, the numbers game.

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Yeah, in fact, yes,
so you know that's seventy. Some are

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ticket sales available? Now, what's
the process? Right here in late December,

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so tickets aren't really available on the
open market right now. We had

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our basically sweep steaks for tickets over
the summer just as we came out of

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the Houston Final four, and so
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game, there'll be some some other
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some of the ticket suppliers or through
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you know, stay tuned on that. All right. So we're talking to

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you today because today is World Basketball
Day, the first World Basketball Day that

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was declared by the United Nations.
So you know, with with with with

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what you're doing and your involvement with
arguably outside of the NBA Finals, you

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know, probably one of the largest, if not the biggest, or most

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visible basketball event. What does World
Basketball Day mean? To what you're doing

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in the Final Four that's here in
Arizona this year. Well, we're excited

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that the United Nations did deem today
as the inaugural World Basketball Day, and

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just what they said about basketball and
why they selected this day, and how

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it transcends borders and cultures and languages, and just how it's a unifying force

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for our communities. I think we've
seen that in Arizona right we have such

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great basketball passion and basketball teams from
a college standpoint, a professional standpoint with

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the Suns and Mercury, that we
love the idea of celebrating basketball, and

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it's a rich history with the game
being invented one hundred and thirty two years

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ago, and so we love all
that tradition in history and love that we

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get to, you know, come
next April, have all eyes on Arizona

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and have the men's Final Four put
us on the global stage. I think

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we spoke to you a few months
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May June's about that seems like yesterday
to me. What are your priorities right

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now? So the priorities right now
are we are in really the final phases

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of planning and moving into execution in
January, and so it's kind of it's

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a little crazy right now in the
planning, and it's going to get real

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crazy come January. We work really
closely with the CAA on all of their

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programs and how we can involve student
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four planning. So we're putting all
the finishing touches on lots of programs that

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you'll see starting in January. So
when you talk about that, you know,

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obviously it's such a big event that
the whole community needs to get involved

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in. I think even you know, down in Tusson, there's people,

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you know, I know people who
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We're going to be volunteering for the
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how much how much can you spread
that out so that there is sort of

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a statewide involvement with this and you
know, you get the help because we

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know, I mean, it takes
a massive number of people to pull this

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thing together, outside of even the
people whose job it is like yours right

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right, And we do see it
as a community event. I mean,

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we have business leaders, elected officials, tribal leaders that are are tourism industry

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obviously that are all very involved in
the planning, and we do think of

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it as how can we get others
involved. So right now we have a

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Read to the Final Four program,
which is a reading competition for third graders

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around the state. We've got over
fifteen thousand third graders that are reading and

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they'll go into a sixty eight school
basket and then you know they'll go from

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there and we'll end up with the
final four schools come early April. So

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lots of ways for the state to
be involved. So this may be a

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dumb question, given that you're the
CEO, do you do you go out

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and scout teams two or that?
That's just another section of people who do

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that. That is really the responsibility
of the NCAA. So they handle right

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all of the basketball aspects of it, the selection Sunday. They put a

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lot of time and effort into that, and so the Men's Basketball Committee really

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drives that. We want to show. The said is do you, as

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a basketball fan likely do you kind
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or whatever, Like you know,
maybe you're not a a grad and you

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think maybe if Arizona gets here,
it'll be better, right, I'm you

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know, when it comes to these
big events, I'm fairly agnostic or a

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little bit like Switzerland, because as
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it's going to be an amazing event, you know, no matter who

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comes to town to play, and
what we try to do is really make

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sure that Arizona is represented. It's
you know, basically creating a lot of

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impact for Arizona in a lot of
different ways. And so those are the

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types of programs we're focused on as
the host committee, knowing that it's going

409
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to be a great commercial for our
state. You know, when when you

410
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know my experience and Steve's done this
as a as a journalist, and I've

411
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been you know, I've been involved
in working NCY double a, you know

412
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with you know the ASU guys,
Doug Tamro, Mark brown Back, Mark

413
00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:53.240
ran back in the day. But
so there's like this isn't their first roadie,

414
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right, there's a way to do
all this. You guys have done

415
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a final four up there already.
Are there are there lessons learned all the

416
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time? Are there things that you're
doing or not doing with this final flour

417
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that maybe you know you learn something
from the last one that was up up

418
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in the Phoenix area. What can
you take from having done this already once

419
00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:21.279
before? Right, Well, twenty
seventeen, the first time we hosted was

420
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really successful and the state and you
know did a great job of it.

421
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And so what we looked at is
what are some of those things that we

422
00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.440
want to do again, And so
we have a Legacy Court project that we

423
00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:37.599
work with the NCAAA on that we'll
do again. We did have a reading

424
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challenge, but the question is how
do we make it, you know,

425
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so even more kids are involved in
it. So it's all about how we're

426
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elevating the experience for our residence and
also our visitors. And then we get

427
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to go and look at Final Fours
that have been hosted in other cities since

428
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twenty seventeen to see what they're up
to as well. Right, how does

429
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this compare as far as that goes
in terms of you know, preparing for

430
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visitors and and you know, just
having all the infrastructure in place for you

431
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know, to help people get around
and whether it's getting tickets or having an

432
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event. You know, how does
all of that in terms of what you're

433
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doing with the Final Four compared to
doing it for the Super Bowl. That's

434
00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:25.920
a great question. The good thing
is we have a team of trained professionals

435
00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:27.720
that have worked on a Super Bowl, that have worked on a Final Four

436
00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:32.319
in the past, that have worked
on a college football playoff game, and

437
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.000
so when we go work with Sky
Harbor Airport, I mean, they are

438
00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:40.559
a well oiled machine for these major
events, right same with the light rail

439
00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:45.680
system. State Farm Stadium has so
many enhancements since we host it in twenty

440
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.440
seventeen, and so the fans and
the media and the visitors are going to

441
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get to see that, you know, once they step inside the stadium.

442
00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.720
So I think there's a lot of
intention from our leadership here in Arizona to

443
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make sure that we are we are
staying best in class and that we are

444
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staying competitive so that we continue to
attract these major events. One of the

445
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:11.079
things that that's maybe a little different
than last time when you had it five

446
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six years ago, is the area
that you're going to be in has changed.

447
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.519
I mean, you have the Diamond
now, it's more more commercial.

448
00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:22.519
You know, there's a lot more
things to do that area, right right,

449
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.079
Yeah, I mean if you look
at there'll be a lot of activities

450
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in downtown Phoenix, and it's grown
up a lot since twenty seventeen. There's

451
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new buildings and new restaurants and new
hotels that everyone can take advantage of.

452
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And then if you go out to
State Farm Stadium, that looks really different

453
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around the stadium than it did in
twenty seventeen. So I think it is

454
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great when we can introduce these visitors
back to Arizona and they can say,

455
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:51.799
oh my gosh, there's so many
new great things as well as then they

456
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:53.759
travel around the state. I mean, I can tell you I've had several

457
00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:59.119
people tell me I went down to
Sabino Canyon and did some hiking, you

458
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:02.240
know, I went up to the
Grand Canyon and did some hiking after the

459
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:06.440
Final four And those are those are
memories that those people bring back for you

460
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:08.599
know a second or time. I
think I asked you this the last time

461
00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:11.319
you you were on and I'm gonna
ask it again because I don't know if

462
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:15.000
it's changed or that. But when
you know, when right now today with

463
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.839
with you know where you guys are
in your preparation, and you know,

464
00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:22.799
as you said, you're getting you're
getting to the end of the planning period.

465
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.440
Getting ready to the execution period.
You know what's on your mind when

466
00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:29.480
you're putting your head on the pillow
at night. What's what's got you know,

467
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:33.440
what's going through your brain? What
are you thinking about, whether good

468
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:36.960
or bad? Right? Well?
What what's uh? What's got your attention

469
00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.920
right now? What we're really focused
on is how we make those events the

470
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:47.039
week of the Final four phenomenal.
Right, So we want to have a

471
00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:49.519
lot of people attend. We want
the volunteers to have a great time,

472
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.880
we want the visiting student athletes to
have a great time. And so we're

473
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:59.680
really already focused on what are we
going to do around the experiences in early

474
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:02.440
April. That's kind of the first
thing. And then the second thing is

475
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.920
how are we leaving a positive,
lasting legacy on Arizona. Which sounds really

476
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:12.160
high level, but when you boil
it down, you know, we're doing

477
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:17.720
a reading program, We're doing some
sustainability in tree plantings, we are doing

478
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:22.079
a legacy court renovation, and so
things that will be in Arizona long after

479
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:27.359
the game is played. That's really
important to us. I'm assuming you kind

480
00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:32.359
of did a preliminary economic impact study
on what's going to happen then, and

481
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:38.839
then how many people do you estimate
to come into town. We estimate probably

482
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:45.200
about one hundred thousand visitors, and
we'll have about seventy five thousand bands at

483
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:51.839
the games. And in twenty seventeen, the economic impact was measured by Arizona

484
00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:57.440
State University at about three hundred and
twenty four twenty five million dollars. So

485
00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.640
we'll do that same measurement after the
event and when we do our wrap up

486
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:07.039
reports and expect to see an uptick
from that. Sure, that's that's a

487
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.119
bit of a number for sure,
but in large part, I mean that's

488
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:14.920
why you know, they're so attractive
to communities, right to do those things,

489
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:17.279
you know, to get that kind
of you know impact. Well,

490
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:21.519
when you get to the end of
it, you know, what's what's going

491
00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:23.559
to be the most important thing to
you to look back and say, Okay,

492
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:30.640
we did this well, because this
happened. I think we did this

493
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:36.880
well by as you said, welcoming
visitors to Arizona, making it an easy,

494
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:39.880
you know, seamless way to move
around. They created memories that they

495
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:44.240
will never forget. I mean,
I love what I love about sports is

496
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:49.279
these LifeLock lifelong memories that we get
to create. You know, I have

497
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:52.039
so many from when I went to
sporting events with my dad. You know,

498
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.640
I golfed with my dad. I
mean, I just have all these

499
00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:59.599
great memories of a championship at the
Phoenix Mercury, and those are the things

500
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.400
that you know, just take with
you for the rest of your life.

501
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:07.359
Is that what got you into into
this in the first place. I think

502
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.599
it is. I mean we were
we grew up as sports fan. You

503
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:14.119
know, my dad took us to
every sporting event under the sun. The

504
00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:20.119
poor guy had three daughters no son, so he paid the price for that.

505
00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:23.679
But ultimately, you know, it
was definitely in our DNA growing up

506
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:28.199
as kids, and I've just kind
of carried it into my professional so it's

507
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:31.840
not so much a boy named Sue
is a boy named j Ex. Maybe

508
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:35.239
that's why I got a boy's name. I think, you know, again,

509
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:37.239
I had to pay the price for
being the third daughter. Could you

510
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.519
hit the curveball? I guess you'll
have to see if you do his job

511
00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:46.679
right exactly. Funny, Well,
Jay, I know you got you know,

512
00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:51.440
still a lot of work ahead of
you. You know, I think,

513
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:52.679
you know, I know, there's
a lot of people looking forward to

514
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:57.559
this just because it is cool to
have a Final four or a super Bowl

515
00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.760
or a ball playoff game in the
state. It always shows well and so

516
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:05.000
we know that you guys are you
know, are making sure that that happens

517
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:07.360
again. So you know, good
luck with all of that. And uh,

518
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:10.000
you know, you keep going at
it. And I don't know if

519
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:13.960
we'll have a chance to talk again, but if we can, we will,

520
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:19.719
well I hope we do. We
appreciate your support, Tucson and you

521
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.119
know, Arizona. Let's just keep
all that positive mojo going. It's what

522
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:24.719
I say. Maybe you'll see some
a lot of blue and red. We'll

523
00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:28.440
see what happened in the next two
and a half months. Be careful what

524
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:32.679
I wish for. Thanks, thank
you very much. Thanks Stephen, Jane,

525
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:37.000
appreciate holiday. Send you what a
dumb question I asked? Yeah,

526
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.079
you did, but you know what
I was. I knew it was a

527
00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:42.639
dumb question what I was asking.
But Steve, you know once again,

528
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.360
well again you have to realize that
you know, the n C double A

529
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:51.119
has what it does. They have
a formula for how they do what they're

530
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:54.639
what what what what This committee is
doing is everything that goes around that to

531
00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:58.880
make sure that what the n C
double A is doing doesn't you know.

532
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:00.440
Well, let me tell you something. This is something I haven't de volt

533
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:02.960
yet. Uh I knew. I
knew that way when I was asking the

534
00:36:04.039 --> 00:36:07.199
question, I probably didn't even know
how to ask a question. I'm part

535
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:10.639
of the media group that's going to
be doing that. I'm a media group

536
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.400
as a committee. Oh okay,
So they wanted to come on board and

537
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:20.360
be one of the media members who
will pick the sixty four teams. Not

538
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:22.679
not part of the real committee,
but our own committee. Right, we're

539
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:25.960
going to emulate the committee. It
starts starts the next month. Well,

540
00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:29.800
then, as I mentioned, you
know, I'm a I'm a volunteer.

541
00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:31.960
I'll be working with the with the
media operation up there, you know,

542
00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:36.360
with the you know, the days
you guys were hosting it and you and

543
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:38.559
you cover and you did the seventeen
I thought I was eighteen, but seventeen.

544
00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:42.639
Yeah, that one, yeah,
right where it was was there for

545
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:45.400
that. It's a it's a it's
a it's a long day, long days,

546
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:47.039
a lot of fun days, and
it's a massive event. The organization

547
00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:50.760
that goes into this but as you
say, you know, the the n

548
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:52.559
C Double A is a well oiled
machine. They knew this. They do

549
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:57.119
it every year and and they're day. They're dang good at it. And

550
00:36:57.199 --> 00:37:00.679
you see that when you go there
and see how organized everything they are till

551
00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:02.960
that you get to be the sixty, ninth, seventieth, and seventy first

552
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.159
team not involved into the tournament.
Exactly exactly, So all right, that's

553
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.239
fine, Jay Perry from the Phoenix
Organizing Committee for the final four. So

554
00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:14.199
we'll be back a little bit.
We're gonna have a good friend coming on

555
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:16.599
in the second hour, John Mordich, who covered sports with us back in

556
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:21.039
the day when we were all doing
that here in Tucson. He'll be joining

557
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:23.199
us. We'll probably go down memory
lane then, but for now, we'll

558
00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:25.880
take your cause in the next segment
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up. I can give you my cell

611
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:25.480
phone number five two oh four one
six seventy four forty. If you have

612
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:29.480
my cell phone number, don't text
me quick. We'll put on social media.

613
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:30.960
If you want to there people pee
call me and tell me about you.

614
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:34.559
Get it out there for you.
I'm still told you I'm as sleep.

615
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:36.800
I'm asleep. Last night was a
logged long day. You know it

616
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:38.280
was funny too, because you know, I mean, I watched the game

617
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:43.239
in my you know, my big
team in my family room. So I

618
00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:45.800
went to bed after the game was
over. Then I went and did my

619
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:49.000
usual puttering around on my iPad.
So of a sten I realized, I

620
00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:51.960
look at the clock and talk,
But what am I doing? Awake?

621
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:55.079
Still you know, realizing that the
game ended late and instead of you know,

622
00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:58.880
just calling it a day, I
you know, I partnered around and

623
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:00.639
I sudden and I had to me
and I had to get up for at

624
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:02.719
seven thirty this morning, Like what
the hell am I doing? It?

625
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:09.599
Crazy? But again, you know, watching this game, and you know,

626
00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:14.400
I'm I've been scrolling through social media, you know, different parts of

627
00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:16.159
the day today. You know,
people still like, well, they didn't

628
00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:20.760
play well for this half. They
like, you know, good teams are

629
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:22.360
gonna make you look bad at a
points in the game. Sure, no,

630
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:25.599
dude, The question is do you
win the game? I get texts

631
00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:30.360
and we're gonna have John on next
hour. I'll bring him out and tell

632
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:32.320
him, you know, because he
does that these him sounds blah blah.

633
00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:37.400
I get text Victor old man.
I got to walk him off the ledge

634
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:42.199
God during the game. I can't
watch a game because I'm answering responses to

635
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:44.880
Facebook and Twitter. Yeah, well, Victor was one. He came on

636
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:46.360
after the Purdue game. It's like, we suck. Yeah yeah, yeah,

637
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:50.840
yeah, No, we don't.
They don't suck. They lost to

638
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:52.800
a really good team. You know, Pelle doesn't suck. He had a

639
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:55.960
bad game, you know, kind
of Colin Buzzwo doesn't suck. He had

640
00:42:57.039 --> 00:42:58.760
he had a not good game.
You know what. Those two guys had

641
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:00.840
bad games, and Purdue wins the
game, and that's what happens, and

642
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:06.119
you just hope that that doesn't happen. That's why it's so hard. People

643
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:08.239
don't realize how hard it is twin
the national Championship and win those six games,

644
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:12.679
right, I play your best,
and even let's let's think about the

645
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:15.960
year that Arizona won it. They
didn't play well in their opener. No,

646
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:19.480
it's when they wanted to me because
they never played well in the opener

647
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.639
and that's where they had to come
back. And then they won that all

648
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:24.400
of a sudden. Okay, now
we're really damn good. But then even

649
00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:29.440
again that you know, people assumed
that because they had providence in the in

650
00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:32.159
the in the Elite eight, oh
we can be over. And they go

651
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:36.840
to overtime and they lost their big
lead and they went into overtime and then

652
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:40.559
Kansas so the other shot away.
No, it's dodging a lot of bullets,

653
00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:44.960
man, And that that's what makes
that thing so hard. So when

654
00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:46.599
you win it, that's why I
said, as much of a big deal.

655
00:43:47.119 --> 00:43:51.239
It's really hard to win. I
don't know how many how good you

656
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:53.320
are. I don't know how many
people had Yukon last year. I know

657
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:55.719
I didn't. I know a lot
of people who didn't. I know I

658
00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:59.400
didn't either. Yeah, it shouldn't
be It should be a lot of fun.

659
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:02.760
Especially it's around the corner from here
and we'll be up there up in

660
00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:07.079
Phoenix. Yeah, what is it
that? Like what we can April third

661
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:13.280
fifth, it's that first weekend in
April, so it's always that Monday that

662
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:17.119
sad. So it's actually it's going
to be the thirtieth and the first thirtieth

663
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:21.960
and oh so this is That's exactly
how I could be wrong. It could

664
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:27.280
be wrong about that whatever that Monday
is in April, because it was the

665
00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:31.559
thirtieth and the first when they won
in ninety seven. Yeah, I think

666
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:36.719
I'm wrong about that because everything's for
some reason, it's all just a little

667
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:40.199
later. Yeah, No, it's
April sixth and eight. Yes, so

668
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:45.760
it's later in the A. The
regionals are you know, through through the

669
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:50.360
first so or the thirty thirty first
waever, so it's it's the sixth and

670
00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:54.599
eight so that slips a little further
into into April. But you know it's

671
00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:58.800
it's it's a hard thing to do, and and you know you gotta be

672
00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:02.880
good, you gotta be lucky,
right, and and that that's how you

673
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:06.280
that's how you win that thing,
no matter how good you are, I

674
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:08.639
mean, you can be again.
Go back to that ninety that ninety seven

675
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:13.599
Kansas team, hands down the best
team in the country, well by a

676
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:16.719
lot. Well I'll give you the
ninety eight Arizona team right right, one

677
00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:20.719
of the best, if not the
best team uh in the country that year.

678
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:24.800
But they're looking looking at me.
But I remember Kansas being like way

679
00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:30.039
up here and everybody after that way
down here in ninety seven. Remember there,

680
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:36.639
they had one loss and they were
just like the prohibitive favorite to win

681
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:38.400
the thing. Over the last several
years there there's been a favorite, but

682
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:43.000
not a prohibitive favorite, somebody who
said there's no way those guys don't win

683
00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:45.960
it, like I thought. I
feel that my recollection is correct, that

684
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:50.199
that's what people thought of Kansas,
which is why the game was so shocked

685
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:53.599
they did. Yeah, mister Williams
cried on this podium. But maybe it's

686
00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:57.360
me I remember, you know,
I remember watching that game and where Why

687
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:00.679
There's a friend of mine lived down
the street. Okay, so we went

688
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:02.280
and we went to his house to
watch the game. Which which game?

689
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.559
The Kansas Kansas went to his house
to watch the game. Any Arizona was

690
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.840
in the lead and bit but I
still so thought Arizona's not going to win

691
00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:14.639
this game. We went home at
halftime. You know why they won that

692
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:19.760
game? Why? Mike Bibby was
fantastic. Yeah, oh yeah, But

693
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:23.880
I so didn't really believe because normally, you know, I'm the I'm the

694
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:28.559
mojo guy, right, I don't
get up from the couch, you know,

695
00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:30.800
because I'll blow the mojo. I
just didn't think they were going to

696
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:34.039
win that game. And I went
home and watched the second half of it

697
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:36.440
at home. Yeah, and I'm
like, wait a minute, they actually

698
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:39.280
won this game. Yeah, No, it was a great situation. Bibby

699
00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:43.559
was fantastic. He played beyond his
years that tournament. Yeah, and in

700
00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:45.599
fact, I think he should have
been the MVP of the whole thing.

701
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:52.199
I with that, Yeah, I
mean yeah, I mean there was so

702
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:55.719
much that he did during that during
that six you know, six games stretch,

703
00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:58.679
right, and Miles did a good
job at the final four. But

704
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:01.119
and that's what the tournament about.
The final four was the most Outsetani player,

705
00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:05.559
but Bib was Jason Terry's all of
them, all of them played well

706
00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:09.079
again and then that it all came
together for a team that obviously had finished

707
00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:12.960
had the talent, but you didn't
know that they did because they were so

708
00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:15.599
bad during you know they at times
during the regular season, right right,

709
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:21.800
and so good the year after only
losing once and then sucking against what Utah.

710
00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:25.639
I mean, that's why that was
heartbreaking. I was so heartbreaking.

711
00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:30.880
I mean we you know, we
went to that and again I I've told

712
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:35.719
the story after after they beat beat
Maryland in the in the you know,

713
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:37.480
in Street sixteen, I called my
brother and said, hey, we got

714
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:39.880
a couple more tickets to get up
here, you know, be here on

715
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:44.800
Sunday. And they got here,
You got them the tickets and they lost,

716
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:46.039
and they're like, what the heck? Why the hell did I show

717
00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:49.440
up for that? It was such
a bad game. It was such a

718
00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:52.920
horrible game. It was. It
was awful, right, So I witnessed

719
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:55.159
it. I was there. Yeah, but you know, as we were

720
00:47:55.199 --> 00:48:00.280
talking with with both Evan Mike cow
and I think you know other others,

721
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:02.480
and I think we've talked about this
a little bit yesterday with Ryan Hanson.

722
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:05.840
There's so many teams that can win
this right now. Oh yeah, well,

723
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:08.800
so many in terms of what maybe
well, I mean fatish, five,

724
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:12.639
six, seven, eight teams you
know you think can win it.

725
00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:15.599
And it wouldn't be out of the
realm of possibility that some other team like

726
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:20.920
a again a San Diego State from
last year or one can jump up and

727
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:27.079
bite everybody. There isn't a truly
dominant team in college basketball right now,

728
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:30.360
you know, I mean Arizona would
look as be as unbeatable as any team

729
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:34.480
has looked this year, and then
they got beat by Purdue because the two

730
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:37.360
guys that you know went off on
them, you know, in that game

731
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:42.400
on Saturday. Yeah, no,
I agree, It just it is what

732
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.760
it is. Yukon lost by fifteen
last night. You've seen what the hell

733
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:49.320
was that? Yeah? No,
it's fun. And North Carolina beat seven

734
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.480
over seven Oklahoma. That's why I
love college basketball. You just don't know,

735
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:54.400
Yeah, you just don't in any
given name home court advantage. Yea,

736
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:57.800
yea. There was one that had
a clear home court advantage. I'm

737
00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:00.760
not too sure if that that.
They could hit shots both teams. Yeah,

738
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:05.119
they look they were awful in the
first half. I mean, just

739
00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:07.599
look at the numbers from the prow. It was first half shooting percentages were

740
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:14.519
terrible. Okay, I've gotten right
here. Alabama shot thirty one percent in

741
00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:19.039
the first half, Arizona shot forty
one. Arizona was three of twelve from

742
00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:22.119
three point and Alabama was three of
twenty two. Yeah, three to twenty

743
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:25.119
two. Yeah, and then only
five of eighteen in the second half,

744
00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:28.960
eight of forty. I would say, no, wonder the Sons are horrible

745
00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:31.280
because they did haven't taken the lid
off the basket yet. Yeah, you

746
00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:36.480
can't hit shots. Arizona only shot
seventeen three pointers last night. Yeah,

747
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.480
very conservative. And the one Kalem
Boswall made that one in the second half.

748
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:44.519
That was a huge, huge,
right right after not having been doing

749
00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:46.320
any so. One of the things
I thought they did really well, and

750
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:50.920
it's the guards, dude, that's
they attacked the basket. It went after

751
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:54.280
the basket right, and you could
tell they're gonna be good at kJ Lewis.

752
00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:59.679
The dude's gonna be a Stuve.
Yeah, you know that was right

753
00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:04.880
right. Hanson gave us the full
his full pregame show analysis because he was

754
00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:08.000
a game yesterday. He was on
the show and and and he talked about

755
00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:15.039
that, how you know that Arizona
needs to Alabama doesn't have a Zach and

756
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:19.239
nobody's got Zach Eatie, but it
doesn't have a big true back to the

757
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:24.440
basket center that you know that,
and they didn't that Arizona should be able

758
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:29.679
to get into the lane and make
things happen and boom. Guess what,

759
00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:32.159
That's exactly what Tommy Lloyd did because
those guys, I mean, how many

760
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:37.920
times did did did Caleb Love,
Colin Boswell, kJ Lewis go down the

761
00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.679
lane and get get a Kelly Larson
and they're big guy's gotten too foul trouble

762
00:50:42.079 --> 00:50:44.960
and we're fell down. Those two
two guys, those two guys have followed

763
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:47.320
out like three games in a row
now, the same two guys. It's

764
00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:50.960
like, dudes, oh, you
know what I ran into attention to that?

765
00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:52.679
You know what I ran into last
night? I'm sure if I thought

766
00:50:52.679 --> 00:51:00.360
about you do you know who?
Uh Gig Burn? Oh yeah, at

767
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:02.440
the end of the game with him
and his wife Regina. Uh, he's

768
00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:06.480
this is him. He's been on
the show before. What are you up

769
00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:07.800
to these days, Steve? Well, well, I have the radio show

770
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:12.400
still and I work, you know, our website And he says, oh

771
00:51:12.519 --> 00:51:14.519
yeah, yeah. I says,
well, I said, after you win

772
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:16.480
the title, you come on the
show. He says. He says,

773
00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:21.039
well, he'll come on the show, but he didn't want to go there.

774
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:23.800
I said, I already bet it, you guys, I really liked

775
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:27.320
them, I mean, honestly,
Alabama, yeah, I really like them.

776
00:51:27.559 --> 00:51:30.599
In Michigan might beat them, but
I really like Alabama sometimes again,

777
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:34.960
Destiny, they should not even be
in it the fourth and forever, and

778
00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:37.920
they got the touchdown, right,
you're right, No, you're a hundred

779
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:39.239
percent correct. They should be in
it, but they are. But they

780
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:43.440
are. And you're gonna give Saban
a month to prepare for the next game.

781
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:47.519
I do think that they're gonna beat
Michigan. I do. I think

782
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:52.760
they're gonna win that game. But
I again, I'll I'm sticking with Washington

783
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.519
right now. I really am there
underdog, right yeah. I still think

784
00:51:55.599 --> 00:52:00.400
everybody's underestimated them, and I think
the reason they're underestimating them is they haven't

785
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:02.079
seen him enough and they're from the
West, right. I hadn't been so

786
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:06.360
impressed until they beat their crap out
of pretty much beat their crap out of

787
00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:08.119
Oregon the last game. I hadn't
seen that organ team yet. That was

788
00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:13.360
a pretty good Washington and we'll have
more to say about that, all right,

789
00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:15.440
stick around, break you news here
at the top of the hour,

790
00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:17.440
our Fab five Friday Picture a day
because we forget to Telebrady. This is

791
00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:21.280
our last show of the year,
so we'll talk more about that when we get back